Deja Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

by Kathy Reichs

See where the smash #1 New York Times bestselling Temperance Brennan "cleverly plotted and expertly maintained" (The New York Times) series all began with Deja Dead, the first installment from forensic anthropologist and internationally bestselling thriller writer Kathy Reichs.

Her life is devoted to justice--for those she never even knew.

In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern--and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is about to place those closest to her--her best friend and her own daughter--in mortal danger...

• ISBN10: 0671011367
• ISBN13: 9780671011369
• Publish Date: 1 June 1998 (first published 17 July 1997)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Out of Print: 8 May 2015
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Imprint: Pocket Books
• Edition: US ed
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 560
• Language: English

Reviews

[Mystereity Reviews]

This was my second attempt at reading this book, the first time I only made it a few chapters. I'm glad I stuck with it this time, it turned into a darn good story. I think it could benefit from a little bit of editing; the book felt like it was way too long and there were some parts that didn't add to the story. But overall, I liked the characters (for some reason, I kept picturing Claudel as Clouseau) and although I'm not familiar with Montreal, the descriptions were vivid.

I picked this book up because I really like the Bones TV show and I was expecting something different than what I got. Even though it was different, I still enjoyed this book. If you take it away from the Bones series and think of it as a different entity the book is pretty good.

[Terri M. LeBlanc]

I was surprised by how much this booked sucked me in. After reading the reviews on Good Reads, I was prepared to be disappointed since I love the show Bones. The story was well written with just the right amount of information and reveal for a solid mystery. I didn't feel duped or disappointed at the end. I'm not sure if I'll read the other novels in the series as the character growth was a little weak, but perhaps has the series goes on, there will be more of that.

[ibeforem]

I’m a fan of the tv show Bones, and have had this series recommended to me numerous times, so I was looking forward to this book! I already knew that the tv show was only loosely based on the books, so I wasn’t surprised when I found out the book Tempe was older than the tv one, and that there is no Booth. Still, my knowledge of the show created a sort of disconnect for me, and I found myself reading this as though the book Tempe was an older version of the tv Tempe.

All of that aside, I did enjoy this, though I didn’t fall in love with it. It took me a while to warm up to Tempe, though I enjoyed the emotion she showed that the tv Tempe is often missing. There’s a lot of detail in this book so it’s not for the squeamish, but the plot is solid and keeps you guessing right up to the very end. It’s definitely a series I will read more of.